Claude product suite 2026: 9 tools explained

The Claude product suite is nine tools built around the same Claude models, and most companies we meet use only one of them, the chat box. Behind that box sit Cowork, Claude Code, Claude Design, Claude in Chrome, the Microsoft 365 add-ins, Claude in Slack, the API and the cloud platforms, and a paid seat already covers most of them.

Below we map each tool, what it does and which plan includes it, with prices in euros as claude.com shows European visitors on 9 November 2026. Every tool gets a short section and a link to the deeper guide, so you can read only what your team will use. A company that would rather hand the setup to someone else can see how our managed Claude service works.

The Claude product suite at a glance, checked on 9 November 2026

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What is the Claude product suite?

Anthropic sells one family of models, Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5, and builds a set of tools around it for different kinds of work.¹ The models do the thinking, while each tool decides where Claude works, from a chat window to a spreadsheet, a browser tab, a code folder or your own software. Readers who want the models explained first can start with what Claude AI is.

The tools share more than a logo. Your projects, connectors to other apps and skills, meaning saved instructions Claude reuses on request, follow you between them.² A sales team that sets up a project with its price list and tone of voice gets the same context in Cowork and the Excel add-in. Nobody has to explain the company twice.

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Which Claude tools come with which plan?

Anthropic shows European visitors its prices in euros before VAT. The table below lists the plans as claude.com showed them on 9 November 2026, with the tools that each one includes.³

Two details change the picture for a company. Free covers chat and Design but none of the agent tools, so a team that tests on Free never sees what Cowork or Claude Code can do. Team needs at least two seats and adds the shared admin and the data processing agreement, which is why personal data belongs on Team or Enterprise and never on private Pro accounts. Worked totals for a whole team sit in how much Claude costs.

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The Claude chat apps: where most people start

The chat apps run on the web at claude.ai, as desktop apps for Mac and Windows and on iOS and Android, all on one account.² Projects keep documents and instructions together, Research lets Claude search and read many sources before it answers, and memory carries useful details from one conversation to the next.³

Most teams skip projects, and yet they are the part that pays back fastest. Put your price list, two good proposals and a page on your tone of voice into one project, and every answer in it starts from your company instead of from a blank page.

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Claude Cowork: tasks that run through your folders

Cowork is the mode where Claude takes a whole task, works through the files in a folder and the apps you allow, and saves the finished documents back. Anthropic now runs chat and Cowork in one place inside claude.ai, so the app decides whether a request needs a quick answer or a longer task.²⁴

The desktop app reaches the folders and applications on your own computer, while the web and mobile apps cover everything else. Tasks can run on a schedule, daily, weekly or monthly, and keep running when the laptop is closed.⁴ Plugins bundle skills, connectors and helper agents into one install for a job such as legal review or finance. Setup, schedules and the first thirty minutes are in the Cowork setup guide.

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Claude Code: software for developers and beyond

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool, a program that reads a codebase, edits files, runs commands and keeps trying until a check passes.⁵ It runs in the terminal, in VS Code and JetBrains, in the desktop app and in the browser, and every paid plan from Pro upwards includes it.

Developers get the most from it, although analysts and managers who know their own field now build scripts and small internal tools with it as well. The plain-English version is in what Claude Code is, and the habits, setup and team prices for developers sit in our Claude Code guide.

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Claude Design: visuals, slides and documents

Claude Design turns a description into a first version of a visual on your brand, such as a one-pager, a mockup or a social media asset, which you then refine and share.⁶ Anthropic includes Claude Design, Claude Slides and Claude Docs in every plan, the Free plan included, and finished work exports to PDF, PowerPoint or HTML.

Claude Dashboards is in beta on paid plans and Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise, so treat those two as previews for now.⁶ The full walk-through, with what Design does well and where a designer still has to step in, is in what Claude Design is.

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Claude in Chrome: work on the pages you have open

Claude in Chrome is a browser extension that lets Claude work on the web pages you have open, reading them, clicking, typing and filling in forms on sites you are logged into.⁷ Anthropic made it generally available on all paid plans, and you can hand it several tabs at once or let a task run in the background while you do something else.

Safety settings matter more here than anywhere else in the suite. Claude asks before purchases, financial actions and anything irreversible, and admins can set lists of allowed and blocked sites.⁷ Anthropic advises against using it for banking, health records and passwords, and says its defences against hidden instructions on malicious pages are not foolproof, so keep it to research and routine web tasks.

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Claude for Microsoft 365: Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook

Claude for Microsoft 365 puts Claude inside the Office apps your team already uses. The add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint and Word are generally available on all paid plans, while the Outlook add-in is in beta on the same plans.⁸ In Word and Excel every change shows as a tracked edit or a highlighted cell, so a controller reviews each one before accepting it.²

Picture a controller in Antwerp who rolls last month's forecast forward in Excel. Claude updates the figures and flags every changed cell with a note, and the controller still checks the five cells that feed the board report before the file leaves the team. Companies that buy Claude through a cloud provider can sign in through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud or Microsoft Foundry instead of a Claude account.⁸ Each app is covered in Claude for Microsoft 365.

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Claude in Slack: tag Claude in a channel

Teams that live in Slack can tag Claude in a channel or thread and ask it to do the work right there.² Typical jobs are summarising a long discussion or drafting the reply a customer is waiting for. Anthropic runs it in beta for Team and Enterprise plans, so expect changes and keep it away from channels with sensitive customer data until your admin has checked the settings.

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The Claude API and the cloud platforms

The Claude API is for software your company builds or buys, such as a support tool that drafts replies or a system that sorts incoming invoices. You pay per token, meaning each chunk of text Claude reads or writes, through a Claude Console account that is separate from the seat plans.¹ Opus 5.5 costs US$4 per million tokens in and US$20 out, and Haiku 5.5 starts at US$0.10 in, which suits large volumes of simple sorting.

The same models run on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry for companies that already buy everything through one cloud. For a European company the cloud route is also the way to keep processing in Europe, because Anthropic stores data in the US and its own API offers only global or US inference.⁹ Amazon Bedrock's EU cross-region inference keeps each request inside six EU regions when called from an EU region, and Google Cloud carries the 5.5 models on its EU multi-region endpoint.¹⁰¹¹ Microsoft Foundry has no EU option for Claude today. The full picture is in Claude and EU data residency, and connecting Claude to your own systems is covered in our MCP guide.

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Which Claude tool should a team start with?

Start where the work already happens, because a tool nobody opens after week two costs the same as one that saves hours. Our order for most European teams of 10 to 50 people runs from the chat to the agents:

• Week 1. One shared project per team in the chat app, with the documents people paste in most often.
• Week 2. One recurring task in Cowork, such as the Monday status report built from last week's files.
• Week 3. The Microsoft 365 add-ins for the people who spend their day in Excel, Word or Outlook.
• Week 4. Claude Design for the marketing team, and Claude in Chrome for research once the admin has set the site lists.
• Later. Claude Code for developers and analysts, and the API once a task runs often enough to belong inside your own systems.

Two things go wrong most often in our projects. Teams switch on every tool on day one and nobody learns any of them properly, and nobody owns the admin settings, so connectors and Chrome run without agreed limits. Name one person who owns the settings before the first week starts.

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Getting help with the whole suite

Through satori-claude we set up the workspace, the licences and the admin settings for €490 once plus €14 per user a month. The Claude licence costs €22 for Standard or €110 for Premium on one invoice in euros. Teams that want everyone trained at once book a Claude workshop at €280 per user for two hours from eight users. A satori-launch adds the setup, a webinar and a full-day workshop for €560 per user from eight users, all prices excluding VAT.

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Summary and next steps

The Claude product suite is nine tools on one family of models. A paid seat from €18 a month covers the chat apps, Cowork, Claude Code, Claude Design, Claude in Chrome and the Microsoft 365 add-ins. Claude in Slack is in beta for Team and Enterprise, while the API and the cloud platforms serve your own software and the companies that need processing inside the EU.

Open claude.ai, create one project for your team and upload the three documents you paste into Claude most often. That takes under fifteen minutes, and every answer in that project starts from your company from then on, in the chat today and in Cowork and the Office add-ins when you add them.

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Sources

Footnotes

1. Anthropic (2026). Models overview. Claude Platform Docs, checked on 9 November 2026. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/overview ↩ ↩²

2. Anthropic (2026). Claude product overview, checked on 9 November 2026. https://claude.com/product/overview ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. Anthropic (2026). Plans and Pricing, checked from an EU connection on 9 November 2026. https://claude.com/pricing ↩ ↩²

4. Anthropic (2026). Claude Cowork, checked on 9 November 2026. https://claude.com/product/cowork ↩ ↩²

5. Anthropic (2026). Claude Code overview. Claude Code Docs, checked on 9 November 2026. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview ↩

6. Anthropic (2026). Claude Design, checked on 9 November 2026. https://claude.com/product/claude-design ↩ ↩²

7. Anthropic (2026). Claude in Chrome, checked on 9 November 2026. https://claude.com/chrome ↩ ↩²

8. Anthropic (2026). Claude for Microsoft 365, checked on 9 November 2026. https://claude.com/claude-for-microsoft-365 ↩ ↩²

9. Anthropic (2026). Data residency. Claude Platform Docs. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/manage-claude/data-residency ↩

10. Amazon Web Services (2026). Geographic cross-Region inference. Amazon Bedrock User Guide. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/geographic-cross-region-inference.html ↩

11. Google Cloud (2026). Data residency. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform documentation. https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/resources/data-residency ↩